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Jargon buster search
We believe in plain English and try to keep things simple but lease and
law does mean some jargon is unavoidable. Hopefully here we'll explain
that too!
- Tenant
- The Tenant is the party legally entitled to temporary possess a property.
- Qualifying Tenant
- The Qualifying Tenant owns a long Lease on a property (a lease for more than 21 years)
- Tenancy
- The tenancy is the temporary possession of a property by a tenant.
- Leaseholder
- A lessee is a person who holds a lease (i.e. the tenant).
- Lessee
- A lessee is a person who holds a lease (i.e. the tenant).
- Section 48 notice
- A Section 48 is a Notice which can be served under Section 48 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1987, this being a notice to advise a tenant or lessee of an address in England & Wales upon which notices on the landlord can be served
- Maintenance charge (or service charge)
- The cost of repairing and maintaining external and / or internal communal parts of a building, which are then charged to the tenant or leaseholder.
- Schedule Of Dilapidations
- A survey that identifies any repairs required on tenanted properties. This is set against a Landlord's or Tenant's obligations to repair a property as identified in the lease.
- Surrender a lease
- The term used to refer to whena lessee or tenant gives back a property which they hold on a lease before the term of years the lease was granted for has expired
- Landlord's Gas Safety Certificate
- A certificate that every person who lets a property under a tenancy which does not infer rights of maintenance and repair on the tenant (usually a tenancy as opposed to a lease) must have carried out annually. Such certificate must be carried out by Corgi registered gas fitter and must be provided to the tenant if requested.
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